Amazon Sponsored Products is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of GenAI/LLM powered self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to Amazon’s Selling Partners and key to driving their long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.
This role will be pivotal within the Autonomous Campaigns org of Sponsored Products Ads, where we're pioneering the development of AI-powered advertising innovations that will redefine the future of campaign management and optimization. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will lead the charge in creating the next generation of self-operating, GenAI-driven advertising systems that will set a new standard for the industry.
Our team is at the forefront of designing and implementing these transformative technologies, which will leverage advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) and sophisticated chain-of-thought reasoning to achieve true advertising autonomy. Your work will bring to life systems capable of deeply understanding the nuanced context of each product, market trends, and consumer behavior, making intelligent, real-time decisions that surpass human capabilities.
By harnessing the power of these future-state GenAI systems, we will develop advertising solutions capable of autonomously selecting optimal keywords, dynamically adjusting bids based on complex market conditions, and optimizing product targeting across various Amazon platforms. Crucially, these systems will continuously analyze performance metrics and implement strategic pivots, all without requiring manual intervention from advertisers, allowing them to focus on their core business while our AI works tirelessly on their behalf.
This is not simply about automating existing processes; your work will redefine what's possible in advertising. Our GenAI systems will employ multi-step reasoning, considering a vast array of factors, from seasonality and competitive landscape to macroeconomic trends, to make decisions that far exceed human speed and effectiveness. This autonomous, context-aware approach represents a paradigm shift in how advertising campaigns are conceived, executed, and optimized.
As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will be at the forefront of this transformation, tackling complex challenges in natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and causal inference. Your pioneering efforts will directly shape the future of e-commerce advertising, with the potential to influence marketplace dynamics on a global scale. This is an unparalleled opportunity to push the boundaries of what's achievable in AI-driven advertising and leave an indelible mark on the industry.
Key job responsibilities
• Seek to understand in depth the Sponsored Products offering at Amazon and identify areas of opportunities to grow our business using GenAI, LLM, and ML solutions.
• Mentor and guide the applied scientists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in AI/ML.
• Design and lead organization-wide AI/ML roadmaps to help our Amazon shoppers have a delightful shopping experience while creating long term value for our advertisers.
• Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints.
• Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and devise new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver.
• Be responsible for communicating our Generative AI/ Traditional AI/ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.